The Southern Ocean is disproportionately important in its effect on the Earth system,
impacting climatic, biogeochemical, and ecological systems, which makes recent observed …

Reliable statements about variability and change in marine ecosystems and their underlying
causes are needed to report on their status and to guide management. Here we use the …

Several recent climate impact assessments on polar regions have been undertaken,
including the synthesis report on Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (AMAP …

Models provide useful insights into conservation and resource management issues and
solutions. Their use to date has highlighted conditions under which no-take marine …

Abstract In the Southern Ocean, wide‐ranging predators offer the opportunity to quantify how
animals respond to differences in the environment because their behavior and population …

A stochastic advection-reaction-diffusion model with terms of multiplicative white Gaussian
noise, valid for weakly mixed waters, is studied to obtain the vertical stationary spatial …

As a consequence of global climate‐driven changes, marine ecosystems are experiencing
polewards redistributions of species–or range shifts–across taxa and throughout latitudes …

Graphical Abstract Graphical summary of multiple aspects of Southern Ocean food web
structure and function including alternative energy pathways through pelagic food webs …

Sea ice is a key habitat in the high latitude Southern Ocean and is predicted to change in its
extent, thickness and duration in coming decades. The sea-ice cover is instrumental in …

Southern Ocean food webs provide ecosystem services with significant global value
including carbon sequestration, fisheries and the existence of iconic wildlife. These services …